Elgar Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Studies

Edited by Ulrike Felt, Professor, Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of Vienna, Austria and Alan Irwin, Professor, Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School and Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy, Aarhus University, Denmark

‘What is STS? The editors and authors seek answers to this question seriously and honestly. Readers are invited to engage with the field through the various frames, themes and topics. In parallel, this is a journey to explore the identity of STS. The Encyclopedia provides a unique overview and clear signpost for newcomers to STS as well as senior researchers.’

• ContentsIntroduction: On encyclopedias, maps and multiplicities in science andtechnology studies 1Ulrike Felt and Alan IrwinPART I FRAMES1 Co-production 13Brice Laurent2 Actor-Network Theory 24Mike Michael3 Finetuning terms: heterogeneity, multiplicity and specificity 34Annemarie Mol4 The infrastructures of knowing 43Emma Cardwell, Solveig Joks and John Law5 Science as culture 52Tereza Stöckelová6 Technology as culture 61Paolo Magaudda7 Finance, valuation, and assetization: techno-economic organization of markets 72Kean Birch8 Valuation studies as a frame in STS 79Kristin Asdal, Liliana Doganova and Maximilian Fochler9 Feminist science and technology studies 87Maureen McNeil, Maggie Mort, Celia Roberts, Lucy Suchman and Claire Waterton10 Gender studies and STS 97David A. Rubin11 Race and genetics 107Emma Kowal12 Postcolonial STS 116Itty Abraham and Suman Seth13 Ethnography 126Kim Fortun14 Methods and politics of public engagement and STS 137Philip Macnaghten15 Document studies 145Kristin Asdal16 Visual studies and STS 154Regula Valérie Burri17 Digital methods in STS: continuities, discontinuities, and reconfigurations 164Janet Vertesi and David Ribes18 Quali-quantitative (or non-binary) methods 176Tommaso Venturini19 Comparisons: framing similarity, framing difference 185Joe Deville and Michael GuggenheimPART II THEMES20 Public engagement and participation revisited 195Matthew Kearnes and Jason Chilvers21 Social movements, science, and technology: conflict and innovation 205David J. Hess22 Citizen science 215Abby Kinchy23 Science communication 225Sarah R. Davies and Maja Horst24 Making & doing: extending STS knowledge production with expressionand travel 234Teun Zuiderent-Jerak and Gary Lee Downey25 Controversy studies and analysis 244Mark Elam26 User studies and co-creation 254Torben Elgaard Jensen and Sampsa Hyysalo27 Risk and disaster in STS 264Makoto Takahashi28 Laboratory studies and scientific practice 273Michael Lynch29 Indigenous knowledge traditions and science 283Helen Verran30 Non-knowledge and ignorance 291Daniel Lee Kleinman31 Universities as spaces of change 301Ruth Müller32 Indicators and their impact for academia 308Alex Rushforth and Sarah de Rijcke33 Time and temporalities in academic research 318Ulrike Felt34 Infrastructures 328Paul N. Edwards, Anne Beaulieu, Christine L. Borgman, Ashley Carse, StevenJ. Jackson, Robin Williams and Antti Silvast35 Innovation 340Alan Irwin and Sebastian Pfotenhauer36 Following values in engineering design and conception practices 349Mylène Tanferri and Dominique Vinck37 Engineering studies and STS 357Thomas De Pree and Ryan Hearty38 Science and technology policy-making 368Brice Laurent39 Expertise, legitimacy, and decision-making 377Göran Sundqvist40 Regulatory science 387David Demortain41 Science advice 397Jeroen P. van der Sluijs42 The making of futures in sociotechnical worlds 407Catharina Landström and Linda Soneryd43 Responsibility—From ELSI to responsible innovation 416Stephen Hughes and Jack Stilgoe44 Care in technoscience 426Martha Kenney45 Inequality 435Melanie Smallman46 Economic science and economic technology 443Fabian Muniesa47 Climate change and STS 451Silke Beck, Tim Forsyth and Martin Mahony48 Environment and STS 460Steven Yearley49 Energy 471Clark A. Miller50 The politics of knowledge in health and biomedicine 481Steven Epstein, Jaimie Morse and Kellie Owens51 Digital health 492Henriette Langstrup and Klaus Hoeyer52 Digital transformations 501Annika Richterich and Sally Wyatt53 Big data, algorithms and artificial intelligence 511Katja Mayer54 Digital platforms 521Adrian MackenziePART III STORIES55 Cities: stories of urban STS 533Ignacio Farías and Tomás Criado56 Nanotechnology: STS reflections and interventions 543Noela Invernizzi and Guillermo Foladori57 Security and war 553Brian Balmer58 STS and outer space: extending the gaze 562Nina Klimburg-Witjes59 Pandemics and the politics of knowledge 569Stephen Hilgartner60 Pharmaceuticalisation 579Sergio Sismondo61 Sensors 587Jennifer Gabrys62 STS meets robotics 596Miquel Domènech and Núria Vallès-Peris